Now available on Amazon, this new book teaches air crew how to obtain sleep when needed.

In the olden days we flew Boeing 727s which had Flight Engineers. These guys had spent entire careers working night shift in hangars and taught us all the tricks to get sleep during the day, in noisy hotel rooms.

By reading this book you can gain the benefit of years of experience of rolling around in bed-bug infested beds in hotels all around the world.

5 years on tour around the world with an Ansett-Refugee Airbus Pilot.Living in Malta then Bristol, Saigon, Bahrain and finally Dubai; flying the entire Airbus family including the largest airliner in the world, the Airbus A380.

Over 1,450 stunning images from around the world and stories from theOn Tour chronicles as well as scripts from radio broadcasts.Photojournalism meets Letter From America.

This limited edition 280 page version of this eclectic website is only available from the electronic bookshopHERE. For more information, an Author Q&A and Reader's Club, click HERE

If you buy the book online you are entitled to have your favourite image delivered to you, individually signed and numbered, for printing and framing.

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I predict. Have you heard the rumour?Why don't they? I reckon.You heard it here first. I wrote about that ages ago. Why don't they learn?I predict. Have you heard the rumour? Why don't they? I reckon. You heard it here first. I wrote about that ages ago. Why don't they learn?I predict. Have you heard the rumour? Why don't they?I reckon. You heard it here first. I wrote about that ages ago. Why don't they listen to me?

____________________The Day I Won The Grand FinalHawthorn’s appearance at the Grand Final reminds me of the time when I singlehandedly beat Essendon in the Grand Final …CLICK TO HEARRex Hunt and the 3AW Boys describe my moment in the spotlight____________________

Hear An Interview

ABC Radio National's Julie McCrossaninterviews James Nixon about his last flight with Ansett in the shadow of the 911 terrorist attacks in the first of the THE FINAL SHIFTseries here ... James Nixon Life Matters Interview 1

(14 meg .mp3 file - November 2004)

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They pretend to pay me ... so I pretend to work!Stefan____________________Australia is the cleanest third world country in the worldJames Nixon

Reflecting on the fact that it is over a decade since Melbourne was judged the most livable city in the world in the Mercer's Annual Expat Livability Study. Since then it has fallen markedly to 17th. Other studies have come along, each proclaiming to be the best, but Mercer's is the real deal. Meanwhile, throughout the country the infrastructure is crumbling and levels of service are declining. Prices, as you'd expect, continue to rise. In 2014 it was rated as the 5th most expensive city in the world.

Shoot straight you bastards and don't make a mess of it!Breaker Morant(to his firing squad)

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Why Don't WeProcess-ize MedicalService Delivery?

How would you like to live in a world where Doctors, Nurses and fellow health workers; proud professionals all; could deliver a service as safe and reliably as Airline Pilots and Astronauts? It can happen.

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Where TheBloody Hell Am I?

In Feb 2007 the Melbourne City Council called for ideas to assist in marketing Melbourne to the world. Read what they should do at the very bottom of the LEAD STORY page, search POSTCODE 3000.

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How to solve the upcoming energy crisis, now that the world has reached Peak Fuel- half the discovered oil has been used and we now use more than comes out of the ground every year - (scroll down to an editorial written in March 2005) and much more... go to the Lead Story page and scroll down.